Event    From 1942  To 1942

Operation Torch

Categories: Armed Forces

Countries: Africa

The allied campaign in WW2 for the liberation of North Africa

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Operation Torch

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Operation Torch & Operation Overlord

Norfolk House In this building, 24 June 1942 - 8 November 1942, general of t...

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Denise Capstick

Denise Capstick

Councillor Major Denise Capstick. Bermondsey councillor, Mayor of Southwark and Executive Member for Health and Social Care. Nurse reservist in the army. Rose to the rank of Major in the Territoria...

Person, Armed Forces, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Francis H. Glennon

Francis H. Glennon

Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Bomber Command crews

Bomber Command crews

During WW2 they flew over Germany at night to bomb first industial targets but later whole areas including civilian towns. Their average age was 22 and they went out night after night, knowing that...

Group, Armed Forces

2 memorials
Artillery Gardens in Spitalfields

Artillery Gardens in Spitalfields

From Bowyers Company: "The word 'artillery' comes from the French 'arc tirer', to draw a bow, and the Artillery Company (later to become the Honourable Artillery Company) was originally a company o...

Place, Armed Forces

1 memorial
O. Isard

O. Isard

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial

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Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes

Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes

Founded as the Labourer's Friend Society by Lord Shaftesbury intending to improve working class conditions. It was keen on the provision of allotments. 1844 it changed its name to the Society for I...

Group, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S.

Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S.

12 years President of the Royal Geographic Society. Born at Stillingfleet, Yorkshire. Drowned crossing a river in Peru.

Person, History, Arctic & Antarctic, Peru

1 memorial
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

SW7, Rosary Gardens, 31

London County Council Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 1853-1917, actor-manager lived here.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator